Gerald Ensley: Could Annette have kept her innocence today?

6:23 PM,
Apr. 16, 2013

Gerald Ensley

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The death last week of actress Annette Funicello elicited a sad sigh from men and women of a certain age. She was the first crush of millions of American boys and the first standard of beauty for an equal number of American girls - all of us now in our 60s.

That her death came just days before the Tiger Woods controversy at the Masters golf tournament may be illustrative: Is not innocence a victim of the social media age? ...